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New ASG Media Web Site

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

ASG Media (nee Avanti) have quite a nice new web site up, see http://www.asgmedia.plc.uk/

Acrophobia Finally Gets Vertigo

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If true then it’s a real shame because we pointed a lot of folks, and indeed some of our customers at Vertigo Group in Toronto as we had the utmost respect for their engineering knowledge when it came to street furniture and enclosures BUT rumours gleaned on our lightning trip to NYC is that they […]

The Preset Group Partner Bios

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We thought it worthwhile publishing the new Preset Group Partner Biographies… Paul Flanigan Paul Flanigan’s passion for the customer experience grew from working in baseball. Most recently, Paul developed, managed, and deployed Best Buy’s in-store network to over 1,000 stores around the world. When he arrived in 2005, he proved the network’s value to the […]

Cleveland Partnership

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The Cleveland partnership sponsored by revol wireless, a local cell phone provider, in order to push the Cleveland down town objective of regenerating the city centre sees Motomedia with this window install. It’s in the Higbee Building, a department store made famous in the 50’s movie a Christmas Story and is the actual window used […]

Veteran Trio Form High Level Consultancy

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

A trio of well-known and experienced veterans of the digital signage industry have formed a new consultancy, The Preset Group aimed at helping established companies, media start-ups and investment groups plan and launch successful digital media networks. The three principal partners – Paul Flanigan, Dave Haynes and Pat Hellberg – together offer decades of diverse, […]

85″ Screens € 28,500 Each

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

These 85″ Panasonic Plasma displays will be available for purchase in Europe in November with a recommended retail price (RRP) of € 28,500 (VAT excluded) and were unveiled at IBC in Amsterdam on Friday. To date Panasonic tell us that they have secured 133 pre-orders across a range of verticals including the rental, leisure and […]

New 2010 Range Rover Sport Launch

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you are going to do a launch then we like launches like this; informal, comfy chairs, lots of space, HUGE SCREENS! Communications company CRICKET has partnered Land Rover for over 20 years and their team of brand specialists were commissioned to create an event to launch the new Range Rover sport vehicle to the […]

LocaModa White Papers

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

LocaModa CEO Stephen Randall is planning to publish a series of four white papers over the next few weeks, each of which focusses on establishing best practices and building standards for user experience. Combining years of accumulated empirical research, granular metrics, and industry trends, Stephen’s papers show a thorough understanding of an industry that whilst […]

Big Bloomberg Deal For STRATACACHE

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE is to announce a big deal with Bloomberg at IBC sometime today we are told.

Liz Ross Martyn Joins Digicom

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Digicom announced last week that it had hired Liz Ross Martyn as Marketing Manager. We had excellent dealings with Liz when she was with Kinetic and very much hope that this will continue. Liz will report to Digicom’s MD Sales and Marketing, Chris Forrester. Digicom describes itself as “the UK’s premier pure-play digital OOH advertising […]